I love wordpress and that’s the wordpress.com version and not the wordpress.org one (yes I know all you techies are going to go “what a shoe”. Well sorry but I don’t particular like security issues and the fact that the installs suck up bandwidth. Blogger is fine as well in my book but I think wordpress.com offers a bit more bang for the buck and, oh wait, there is no buck, it’s free, so I’m not going to carp that the .com version is more limiting in many respects then the .org and you can’t have as many bells and whistles.
My feelings and from what I can see from Google and Bing searches on various blogs, quite honestly it doesn’t seem to matter what platform you use, the search engines love them all if you keyword and tag correctly.
I was curious to see if one could also add social media sharing links to blog posts on wordpress.com, its possible on the .org version as plugins and there are people that have done coding tutorials but I had a hard time finding anything aside from http://www.addthis.com to be able to do this on the .com version. I couldn’t find it in the help section as well but figured there must be a way.
I came across http://www.perlitalabs.com/Social_Bookmark_WordPress_Builder/url_builder.php?title=Test%20Title&url=http://www.test.com and http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/social-bookmarkings?replies=42 and a post originating from http://sunburntkamel.wordpress.com/ . I am unable to find the original post but the information originated from there from someone else’s blog, my apologies but could not find the original post I found it on. (Thank you whoever you are)
This is the original code suggests for implementing SM links and images in wordpress.com
social-bookmarking-template-sunburntkamel
It appears the .gif links are still active but wanted to insert my own and also wanted to add twitter (which I don’t know if it existed when he wrote this)
This was my version, please have fun tweeking if need be and please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions.
WordPress.com social media linking codes
I had some trouble with the twitter link but seemed to find out what worked and did not work. Two recommendations when implementing the twitter link: use bitly to shorten the link up in advance and also if you have any special characters in the title or the url, specifically & and ” change them when inserting. If the title has either of those two symbols replace (&) with (and) and delete any (“)s. The characters do not translate when posting to twitter. The link won’t work.
This is kind of a pain because you have to insert for every blog post and change the links but have not found any alternatives as of yet. The nomen should be replaced with the name of the post and the addy with the unique url. If you keep a copy in MS word and then just copy it into another new doc and sub the url and the blog title it only takes a minute.
I don’t have a code yet for Linkedin, which I’d like to add at some point, if someone has done one I would appreciate it and will add it in. If you find some links that don’t work, please let me know as well.
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